
Judith Gordon (piano) gave her New York-recital debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Introductions series and in 1996 was named Boston Globe Musician of the year. She has been presented frequently by the Bank of America Celebrity Series and participated in Emmanuel Music's multi-season series of music by Schubert, Schumann, and Harbison. With Rob Kapilow she explored music of Beethoven and Debussy in his What Makes It Great? programs in Boston, Los Angeles, and New York. As soloist with the Boston Pops she has performed Mozart, Saint-Saëns, and Ravel concertos, and with groups including the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, and the MIT Symphony she has appeared in repertoire from Bach, Beethoven, and Hindemith to Gorecki, Harbison, and Hyla.
The wide range of composers with whom she has worked or who have written music for her includes Martin Brody, Peter Child, Alan Fletcher, John Harbison, David Horne, Lee Hyla, Libby Larsen, and Peter Lieberson. She has appeared in concert with artists and ensembles including vocalists Lisa Saffer, Janice Felty, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson,William Hite, and James Maddalena; cellists Andres Diaz, Rhonda Rider, and Yo-Yo Ma; violists James Dunham, Cynthia Phelps, Marcus Thompson, and Roger Tapping; violinists Rose Mary Harbison and Andrew Kohji Taylor; oboist Douglas Boyd; Imani Winds; the Jacques Thibaud String Trio; the Arianna, Borromeo, Lydian, and St. Lawrence string quartets; the Boston Chamber Music Society, Collage New Music, Santa Fe New Music; and many members of the Boston and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras.
Her recordings include soon to be released music by John Harbison with Janice Felty, as well as chamber works by Lee Hyla. She has been an instructor of piano at MIT, and served on the jury at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and has given classes at the University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon University, New England Conservatory, Boston Conservatory, and the Rivers School. Ms. Gordon performs and teaches at chamber music festivals including Cape Cod (Massachusetts), Charlottesville (Virginia), Innsbrook (Missouri), Rockport (Massachusetts), Portland (Maine), Santa Fe (New Mexico), Spoleto USA (South Carolina), Token Creek (Wisconsin), and Music from Salem (New York), where she is a co-artistic director. She is Assistant Professor of Music at Smith College.
